Andy Murray knocked out of Mexican Open by Grigor Dimitrov

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Dimitrov had not won a set in three previous encounters against MurrayPedro Pardo / AFP

Sport Staff

Published at 10:01AM, March 1 2014

Grigor Dimitrov beat Andy Murray in three sets in a late-night encounter to
reach the final of the Mexican Open in Acapulco.

The Bulgarian No 1 recovered from the loss of the first set to win 4-6, 7-6
(7/5), 7-6 (7/3) to book a showdown with Kevin Anderson, the big-serving
South African, who had earlier beaten Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 6-1,
5-7, 6-4.

Murray, who was playing in his first semi-final since winning Wimbledon last
year, started strongly but wavered enough to allow Dimitrov to clinch a
second-set tie-break.